Zhu Yu's seemingly joking complaint also resonated with the other two, and they both complained.

Wang Qin said that he retired from the position above the head of the capital for ten years. According to convention, he had two choices. One was to enter the craftsmanship and commercial system managed by the inner court and became a manager of the Royal Workshop; the other was to enter the administrative system and become a grassroots official in the Song Dynasty.

The high salary of the craftsmanship supervision system was famous in the Song Dynasty. The income of a master craftsman was even comparable to that of a fourth-rank prefect. If you are lucky enough to enter the sea trade fleet and return from a sea, even an ordinary crew member could earn seven or eight hundred coins a year. The worst thing is to be a manager in the imperial village, and you can earn four or five hundred coins.

At that time, Wang Qin only thought that entering the administrative system would be equivalent to becoming an official, which could be considered a loss of his identity as a farmer for generations and giving the family the face. Even if he became a chief in the inner court system, he was still a commoner. But in reality, he was a martial artist and was unable to enter the sequence of people-friendly officials. He could only be a busy and busy official in the understatement. The heavy economic pressure also made him regret his original choice.

As for Xie Bin, he entered the bureaucratic system by selecting people. According to the Song Dynasty's official selection system, every three years, each subject was selected at most several hundred people, which was far from meeting the replacement of officials in the entire administrative system. Therefore, the court also selected officials from scholars who passed the provincial examination and provincial examinations, but because of their low background, they could generally only serve as local grassroots officials, and promotion was also difficult.

What Xie Bin regretted was that after his classmates failed the imperial examination, they turned to the military and entered the military system by changing their martial arts exams, or directly recruiting to join the army. Because the army was very popular with scholars, they became officers after studying martial arts for a few years, and then they were promoted quickly after making military achievements. Some of his classmates had already achieved the leadership, but his future was bleak.

Listening to the complaints of the three people, Zhao Bing was a little distracted for a moment...

When he was in Qiongzhou, he was in financial difficulties, so Zhao Bing broke the Song Dynasty salary system that had been implemented for more than a hundred years, that is, he would get salary for any position, regardless of grade and qualifications. The implementation of the parallel salary payment method of physical and currency is used to solve the embarrassment of officials who cannot buy things due to rising prices and money.

Zhao Bing naturally knew the pros and cons of this salary system. The advantage was that it improved the enthusiasm for work, how capable it was to earn as much money, solved the problem of occupying the pit and not pooping, and also reduced the financial burden of the court. Later, with the enrichment of materials, in order to prosper the market, the distribution of physical goods was abolished and the monetization was comprehensively monetized, which did solve many practical problems at that time.

As time goes by and the situation improves, the disadvantages gradually emerge. The biggest problem is that the salary of basic officials and employees is relatively low, and they are unfair to those positions with poor growth channels, which keeps their salaries at a low level. And the young people at that time also entered middle age, and they had to marry and have children, support their parents, and raise children, and this salary was too short.

However, this system has little impact on the military. One is that ordinary soldiers will retire after serving for seven years, so the military is mainly young and strong. In order to encourage joining the army, the salary level of the army is higher than that of the administrative system. As the service life increases, the salary will also increase, which can basically ensure that the cost of a family of four is guaranteed.

Secondly, the war between the Song Dynasty and the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties has never stopped. During the war, subsidies will be issued to the participating troops, and there will be some rewards to receive. Therefore, although the war is dangerous, Zhao Bing did not treat his officers and soldiers unfairly, so that they could obtain sufficient and stable income.

Third, the current system of title acceptance is mostly related to military merits, so those with titles in the army are much higher than those in the administrative system. If you get a title, you can get fief money of varying degrees, which is equivalent to receiving subsidies from the court in disguise, which allows them to greatly improve their lives. Of course, this is also worth it.

However, wars cannot be won by the bravery of the army alone. They also require the support of many departments, especially such large-scale wars. It can be said that the entire state machine has been mobilized. In addition to paying more hard work and even life, officials in the administrative system cannot get the same treatment.

The group of supervisors did not exist before the Song Dynasty, and it can be said that it was born in response to the times. In the Song Dynasty, there were a large number of official agricultural and animal husbandry production institutions: Guanzhuang, military farm, farming, farming, horse farming farm, Wensiyuan, workshops, and smelting farm supervision. The leaders of these institutions were supervisors.

The official financial institutions of the Song Dynasty had deliberate on goods, market affairs, transfer to the top (pawn shop), transfer to the bottom, money transfer, papermaking, and money minting. Their chiefs were also supervisors. There were also many official commercial institutions, market affairs, stacking yards, carboniferous yards, etc., and their chiefs were also supervisors. In addition, the Song Dynasty's well-developed cabin transportation, and the chiefs of related shipbuilding yards and transfer to the Pancang were also supervisors.

In addition, from the capital to the local government, the officials operated real estate, so they set up many store offices (store offices), bricks and tiles, etc., and their superiors were also supervisors. In the Song Dynasty, business was prosperous, and the official finance relied on commercial tax. The venues that collected commercial tax were spread all over the country, and the leaders of the venue were also a kind of supervisors.

At the same time, the Song Dynasty was prosperous, and the official finance also relied on the non-demand income. The official salt farms, wine shops, tea shops, and alum workshops were all over the country. The chiefs of these business were also supervisors. They were also responsible for overseas trade, responsible for trade with Liao, Jin, Xixia and Mongolia, and various large warehouses set up by the official. The chiefs were generally supervisors.

Since the supervisor is responsible for financial affairs, the assessment is different from other officials. The assessment of supervisors often has clear quantitative standards. Among them, supervisors in terms of prohibitions and taxation, the supervisors in production units use output assessment. The quota will also have a "comparative quota" such as the modern ones, and the official attaches great importance to whether to complete the quota, which is directly linked to the promotion, demotion, reward and punishment of officials.

It can be said that the officials made significant contributions to the country at that time. The construction of the imperial court, ritual vessels, and clothing enjoyed by the imperial palace were often provided by the institutions of the imperial officials. The food, clothing, housing and transportation of the royal relatives and nobles were inseparable from the efforts of the officials, and the lives of the people were closely related to the officials. Many of the food, horses and weapons needed on the front line were produced by the institutions of the imperial officials. Even about half of the money spent by the imperial court was obtained by the officials.

The hard work of being a supervisor is often despised and is quite hard-working. In terms of smelting and minting, the workplace is remote. In addition to craftsmen and soldiers, the service personnel also have a large number of criminals. In addition to hard work, they also have a certain degree of safety risks.

Horse Raising Prison is usually located in wilderness areas with cold climates, far away from the city. The officers of the horses who work as horses, veterinarians, and herdsmen all day long, which is not an easy job. The officers of the wine service will inevitably have to go to wine shops and wine-selling hotels to inspect and deal with wine-making craftsmen who are full of wine lees.

Zhao Bing still remembered Su Zhe was demoted to the Jianyunzhou Salt and Wine Taxation under the influence of his brother Su Shi's Wutai poem. He described his work and life: "During the day, he sat in the city to sell salt, wine, and tax pig fish, and fought with the city people to find a ruler to help himself; when he returned to the evening, he was exhausted and he would sleep in a daze, not knowing that it was dawn."

Su Shi's friend Wang Yi was appointed as the chief of the Jianzhou Money Supervision Officer. He also wrote a poem to say goodbye to him, which said: "The river cart pulls water and the brain is black, the cinnabar falls into the fire and the cheeks are red." "If you fail to beg for the order, the officials and officials seem to be tin and copper." Although the poems are beautiful, you can imagine how hard the work is. Just imagine how difficult it is to adapt to this kind of position for most scholars.

The Song Dynasty also had a popular practice, that is, to punish officials who made mistakes and let them serve as supervisors. These people have higher ranks and are usually promoted again after a period of time. The addition of this group of people changed the composition of supervisors. However, being supervisors became a punishment, which made people look down on supervisors.

However, Zhao Bing knew that due to his implementation of the policy of "developing industry and commerce", and the restoration of Jiangnan business, the institutions that set up officials in charge have already had a considerable scale. Since there are many institutions, the number of officials in charge is large. He is not clear about the total number of officials in charge in the Jiangnan province, but it is estimated that there should be nearly 10,000 people. This is only part of it, because the institutions set up by the inner court still perform some of the responsibilities of the court, the court, and the warehouse.

It is conceivable that the officials in the Song Dynasty were a huge group and the cornerstone for maintaining the stable operation of the state machinery. However, they were engaged in the most difficult work, but their status was low and their salary was small. Zhao Bing knew that they could use their feelings and strict laws to make them dare to contribute, and finally their duties were made.

However, Zhao Bing also understood that it is difficult to last for this alone. After all, in a job that cannot see the future and is doing the hardest and most tiring job, he even risked his life to run in the war zone like a military soldier, but could not get the generous salary of others. He would inevitably be imbalanced and he would do illegal activities.

Of course, Zhao Bing also knew that there were also corrupt officials among the officials in the supervision. Some tax authorities who collected business taxes indulged their subordinates in pressing and extorting past merchants and people like sucking bones and marrows. People called the tax fields they controlled "law fields". Warehouse officials and salt transport officials colluded with each other, mixed things into the salt, stole the remaining salt, sold them for profit, and thus harmed the salt buyers, etc.

While these officials harmed the public and private, they harmed the people and harmed the national interests. Zhao Bing knew that in the current social context, it was inevitable and even inevitable. However, the imbalance between efforts and gains was also one of the important factors for these grassroots officials to commit crimes.
Chapter completed!